Opens June 14, 2012 at the Architecture Center Houston

June 14 – July 15, 2012

Opening: June 14, 2012

Proposal Coming Soon

The mixed residential and industrial neighborhood of Nottingham is an unusual site for a public artwork. It does not host the type of site one generally associates with public art—large parks, public buildings or corporate plazas. The lack of a traditional context, the request that the work have a relationship to the City of Cleveland’s Division of Water, while also providing an amenity for the neighborhood, make this a particularly challenging endeavor. Furthermore, given that this is in many ways an isolated neighborhood as it lacks retail establishments that attract visitors this will not be so much a public artwork, but rather a neighborhood artwork.

Public Art Project Description Coming Soon

The facility will constitute an adaptive reuse of a former Home Depot, and will house the municipal court and also provide space for a police substation. The footprint of the facility is 108,000 square feet, and is sited on a high elevation near the interstate highway (IH-35) in north central Austin. The scope of this project is to provide 66,000 square feet of renovated space to include general administrative areas, prosecutors’ offices, judges’ offices, a large courtroom, medium courtrooms, marshals’ offices with holding rooms and public waiting areas/rooms, as well as several separate, designated spaces to serve as a police substation within the facility. The substation will require 26,000 square feet of conditioned office space, community meeting space, report-taking space and public service counter. Of the remaining 16,000 square feet, some or all of that space may be used for commercial or community rental space.

There will be shared common space and infrastructure to accommodate visitors and staff of both the municipal court and police substation. The site work will include parking for 600 secured and unsecured spaces. The facility will be located within the St. Johns neighborhood of Austin, at IH-35 and St. Johns.

Austin Art in Public Places